#what second wave (i.e. actual) intersectionality was supposed to spark in white women

[colombinaa]

White males who direct misogyny at white women specifically are virtue signalling to black and brown males. They’re saying “we know we’re men first and we’re on the same side in the oppression of women and girls”.

Notice how so many of them are leftists: men could establish a society with no hierarchy among themselves and still be male supremacist. They all know the first oppression, from which all others derive, is male dominance over female people, and they know it can exists alone. It already has.

Don’t mistaken me, the ones on the right do this too. Even racist white men occasionally tell a “i hate my wife” joke to men of colour. And their wife is always white. We both know this because we are that wife. Just because right-wing men have different methods doesn’t mean they’re not saying the same thing.

We white women gotta not only wake up, but take action based on this behaviour. Way too many of us keep choosing whiteness above everything, despite the clear evidence telling us we shouldn’t. Whiteness won’t save you. White males won’t save you. What white males told you was a lie with the sole purpose to keep you separated from women of colour - and thus sisterhood - and hurt them in the process.

Unwhiten yourself. Unlearn the racist bullshit they raised you with. Decenter and destroy male-made bullshit systems and hierarchies. You fucked up yesterday? Improve today.

Find and join your fellow women in sisterhood. Choose femaleness over whiteness always.

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